Eva Skrande is the author of My Mother’s Cuba (River City Poetry Series, 2010) and a chapbook, The Gates of the Somnambulist (Jeanne Duval Editions, 1988). Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Prick of the Spindle, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Houston. (updated 10/2017)